8: What does an actual PRIEST think about Fesshole?

When we started this podcast the one thing we thought would be important to do was to talk to a priest and compare notes about taking confessions.Yes we're mostly taking confessions for comedy reasons but at the same time, we're dealing with real people's lives here and how does it compare?We've ended up with an interesting show that's surprisingly theological and philosophical and most of all funny. We didn't intend to make a bible studies class but here we are, we explore the usefulnes of prayer, and attempt to answer the difficult question why confession is needed.It's because it lightens the burden on your, well, we're not religious so we shouldn't say soul, but you know what we mean.Tackling this was a curious proposition really, there's something about talking to people of God where we feel we have to be respectful, so we don't start shouting about atheism but we do eventually, quietly fess up our own slightly hippy science beliefs, in line with Carl Sagan, that we are the universe looking at itself. And so is our cat.ROB MANUEL (retired vicar)PS: The alt title was 'We asked a priest: "If God loves us, why did he let Elon ruin Twitter?"'